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Overcoming Law

Overcoming Law

Richard A. Posner

Throughout, the book is unified by Posner's distinctive stance, which is pragmatist in philosophy, economic in methodology, and liberal (in the sense of John Stuart Mill's liberalism) in politics.
The Methods of the Gernet Classicists (RLE Myth): The ...

The Methods of the Gernet Classicists (RLE Myth): The ...

Roland A. Champagne

The Structuralists on Myth Roland A. Champagne. © 1992 Roland A. Champagne All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Champagne, Roland A. The structuralists on myth : an introduction / by Roland A.
Antitrust Law, Second Edition

Antitrust Law, Second Edition

Richard A. Posner

In this thoroughly revised edition, Posner explains the economic approach to new generations of lawyers and students.
Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy

Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy

Richard A. Posner

Richard Posner argues for a conception of the liberal state based on pragmatic theories of government.
Aging and Old Age

Aging and Old Age

Richard A. Posner

Observing that people change both physically and cognitively as they age, Posner suggests that each of us has, in succession, two separate selves - younger and older - with different abilities, interests, and behaviors, an insight that ...
How Judges Think

How Judges Think

Richard A. Posner

A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases.
How Judges Think

How Judges Think

Richard A. Posner

C.K.Rowland and RobertA. Carp, Politicsand Judgment in Federal District Courts 165 (1996). 12. SeeRichard A. Posner, “Cognitive Theory as the Ground ofPolitical Theoryin Plato, Popper, Dewey, andHayek,” in Cognition and Economics ...
No Hormones, No Fear: A Natural Journey Through Menopause

No Hormones, No Fear: A Natural Journey Through Menopause

Trisha Posner

No Hormones, No Fear is the story of Posner’s search for an alternative to the AMA’s sanctioned regimen of hormone replacement therapy.
Sex and Reason

Sex and Reason

Richard A. POSNER

Richard A. Posner is Circuit Judge, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.
The Song of Roland

The Song of Roland

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His helmet j to earth has he sunken with limp limbs — all is o'er ! Dead is the Count. Knight Roland gazeth and weepeth sore. Ye shall find in the wide world never a man that sorroweth more. When Roland beheld how his comrade with his ...
Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts

Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts

Eric A. Posner

In Terror in the Balance, Posner and Vermeule take on civil libertarians of both the left and the right, arguing that the government should be given wide latitude to adjust policy and liberties in the times of emergency.
Zeitschrift für Semiotik

Zeitschrift für Semiotik

Roland Posner

Christin Grieser-Kindel und Klaus Uellenberg (Köln) diskutierten die Ermittlung und Therapie individueller Grammatikdefizite auf der Grundlage eines diagnostischen Tests. Hartmut Breitkreuz (Heidelberg) griff das Problem der „ Falsa Friends" ...
Killing JFK: 50 Years, 50 Lies: --From the Warren Commission ...

Killing JFK: 50 Years, 50 Lies: --From the Warren Commission ...

Dr. Lance Moore

Ms. Lee, at 87, is suing her literary agent, Samuel Pinkus, who was in partnership with Posner, for trying to steal the copyright (and ... Her lawsuit asserts that Pinkus and Posner created a company in 2011 called Philologus Procurator Inc.,  ...
Frontiers of Legal Theory

Frontiers of Legal Theory

Richard A. Posner

The most exciting development in legal thinking since World War II has been the growth of interdisciplinary legal studies. Judge Richard Posner has been a leader in this movement, and his new book explores its rapidly expanding frontier.
The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic

The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic

Eric A. Posner

The answer, according to legal scholars Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule, is nothing. In The Executive Unbound, they provide a bracing challenge to conventional wisdom, arguing that a strong presidency is inevitable in the modern world.
European intellectual history since 1789

European intellectual history since 1789

Roland N. Stromberg

Roland N. Stromberg. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stromberg, Roland N., (date) European intellectual history since 1789 / Roland Stromberg, — 5th ed. gem. ibliography: p. 341 Includes indexes. ISBN 0-13- 291998-2 1.
Cardozo: A Study in Reputation

Cardozo: A Study in Reputation

Richard A. Posner

How are reputations forged? Why do some reputations endure, while others crumble? And how can we know whether a reputation is fairly deserved? In this ambitious book, Richard Posner confronts these questions in the case of Benjamin Cardozo.
The Song of Roland

The Song of Roland

Chanson De Roland

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com.
The Story of Roland

The Story of Roland

James Baldwin

Here are related the daring feats and great exploits of Roland, worthiest of the barons of France in the time of Charlemagne, and those of Oliver and Reinold and Ogier the Dane, all heroes who were his companions in arms and who rivalled ...
Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

Acclaimed as France's most important writer-intellectual since Sartre, Barthes offers glimpses of his personal life, identity, and philosophy
Roland Poulin: sculpture

Roland Poulin: sculpture

Diana Nemiroff

This beautifully illustrated volume is the first major survey of the sculpture of Roland Poulin.
The Eiffel Tower, and Other Mythologies

The Eiffel Tower, and Other Mythologies

Roland Barthes

In this appealing and luminous collection of essays, Roland Barthes examines the mundane and exposes hidden texts, causing the reader to look afresh at the famous landmark and symbol of Paris, and also at the Tour de France, the visit to ...
A Vector Field Method on the Distorted Fourier Side and ...

A Vector Field Method on the Distorted Fourier Side and ...

Roland Donninger

Roland Donninger, Joachim Krieger. [35] [36] [37] [38] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [ 49] [50] [51] [52] [54] BIBLIOGRAPHY 79 Lars Hörmander, The analysis of linear partial differential operators. I, Classics in Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, ...
Literature 1986

Literature 1986

Prof. Dr. Roland Wielen

Dr. Roland Wielen, S. Böhme, U. Esser, H. Hefele, Inge Heinrich, W. Hofmann, D. Krahn, V. R. Matas, Dr. Lutz D. Schmadel, G. Zech. Astronomisches Rechen- Institut, Mönchhofstraße 12–14, D-6900 Heidelberg 1, F.R. Germany Telex: 461336 ...
Survival in the Killing Fields

Survival in the Killing Fields

Haing Ngor

At each interview there were fewer Cambodians than before. A young bearded Englishman was at the fourth interview. He was Roland Joffé, the director of the film. Roland Joffé asked me about my story – how long I had lived under the Khmer ...
British Film Directors: A Critical Guide

British Film Directors: A Critical Guide

Robert Shail

Roland JOFFE Grandson of the sculptor Jacob Epstein, Roland Joffe was born in London on 17 November 1945. He began his career directing for the theatre, where he was one of the joint founders of the Young Vic, and in television where  ...
Teaching without Disruption in the Primary School: A Model ...

Teaching without Disruption in the Primary School: A Model ...

Roland Chaplain

Encouraging positive relationships whilst preventing disruption, and motivating students to learn, raises concerns for any teacher. Roland Chaplain handles a variety of critical issues with clarity and vision.
The Unknown David Lloyd George: A Statesman in Conflict

The Unknown David Lloyd George: A Statesman in Conflict

Travis L. Crosby

Crosfield was returned as Liberal MP for Warrington in the January 1906 election . 3 Information on golfing in this paragraph may be found in Roland Quinault, ' Golf and Edwardian Politics', in Negley Harte and Roland Quinault (eds), Land and ...

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